Nigeria Ranks Lowest In Internet Affordability – Report
A global study on the quality of digital wellbeing in 85 countries has ranked Nigeria the lowest country in…
Nigerian Team Builds First-Of-Its-kind Technology For Microsoft
Microsoft Mesh, a new mixed-reality platform powered by Azure – that allows people in different physical locations…
Expert Urges Strengthening Of Core Competence, Strategic Reserves
An energy and logistics expert, Elvis Chukwudi Okonji, has urged players in the energy and logistics industry to…
Texas Power Grid CEO Is Fired Following Widespread Outages During Winter Storms
Following widespread power outages during a series of winter storms that left many Texas residents in the dark…
Nigeria Records N4.9tr Investment Inflows In 5 Yrs
The Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) has said Nigeria’s annual investment inflows averaged $13…
Fuel Scarcity: Marketers Raise Ex-Depot Price To N163/Litre
Fuel retailers have accused private depots of being responsible for the shortage of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS)…
Apple-Supplier Foxconn Flags Strong Start To Year As Lockdowns Spur Electronics…
Apple supplier Foxconn said it expects first-quarter revenue to rise more than 15% from a year earlier, boosted by…
MTN Records 37.2 Million NIN Enrolment
MTN Nigeria said it has enrolled 37.2 million National Identification Numbers (NINs) for its subscribers in the…
The Pains Of Doing Business Online In Africa
With an estimated population of 1.216 billion people, you will agree with me that Africa is a great continent. But,…
Emefiele Rules Out Foreign Investors’ Exclusion From OMO
Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) will not be barred from participating in the Open Market Operations (OMO)…
Nigeria Signs Fresh Five-Plug Bilateral Deal On Industrial Growth
Nigeria has signed a $1.4 billion memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Morocco to enhance its industrial capacity…
Deliveroo To Deliver $7 Billion Dual-Class London Listing
Deliveroo plans a London stock market listing that could value the British food delivery firm at around $7 billion…
Monde Nissin Seeks $1.3 Billion In Philippines’ Biggest Ipo
Philippine food maker Monde Nissin Corp. filed for an initial public offering to raise as much as 63 billion pesos…
Federal Government Of Nigeria Denies Allocating Vaccines To Rich Nigerian
The Federal Government of Nigeria has insisted that the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines currently in the…
The Leadership Of Cattle And Foodstuff Dealers Under The Aegis Of Amalgamated…
The leadership of Cattle and Foodstuff dealers under the aegis of Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers…
World’s Biggest Wealth Fund Puts Japan’s Kirin On Watch List Over…
The Norwegian central bank said on Wednesday it had put Japan’s Kirin Holdings Ltd Co on a watch list for possible…
Lufthansa Weighs More Aircraft Retirements After Record Loss
Lufthansa may permanently ground more planes to emerge leaner from the coronavirus pandemic, the German airline…
Bond Scares Spook World Shares, Investors Look To Powell
Resurgent worries about rising U.S. bond yields hit global shares on Thursday as investors waited to see if Federal…
Germany’s Merck KGaA Predicts Earnings Gain In 2021
Germany’s Merck KGaA predicted further earnings gains in 2021 as an effort by the pharma industry to ready…
Bank Of Japan Shares Hit Upper Limit For Fourth Session, Nearly Doubling This Week
Shares in the Bank of Japan, one of only a handful of central banks that are publicly listed, hit their upper limit…
Britain Launches New Pandemic Loan Support Scheme
Britain’s finance minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday launched a new state-backed loan scheme for businesses hit by…
Central Bank Of Nigeria Votes N50b For Commodity Exchange
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has committed N50 billion into the Nigeria Commodity Exchange (NCX) to boost…
Oil Extends Gains On Prospect Of OPEC+ Sticking With Supply Cuts
Oil prices rose for a second straight session on Thursday, as the possibility that OPEC+ producers might decide…
Texas Power Grid Operator ERCOT Fires CEO After Deadly Blackouts
Texas’ power grid operator ousted chief executive Bill Magness on Wednesday, as the fallout continues from a deadly…
UK New Car Sales Slump In February Amid COVID-19 Hit
British new car registrations fell by roughly 36% year-on-year in February, according to preliminary data from an…
Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, OCP Morocco Seal $1.4bn Deal To Produce…
The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) has sealed a $1.4bn deal with the OCP of Morocco as well as the …
SMEs Report Rise In Demand As Nigeria PMI Swings Back To Positive
Nigeria’s manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a gauge for manufacturing sentiments, moved back into…
E-Payments In Nigeria Decline Across All Channels
The value of electronic payment (e-Payment) transactions in Nigeria fell month-on-month, MoM, by 10 per cent to…
The African Union Claims 300m Africans Live 50km Away From Broadband Connections
The African Union (AU) has noted that though there has been a huge expansion of fibre optic networks on the…
Volkswagen CEO Tweets, Musk-Style, On Market-Cap Milestone
When the market value of Germany’s Volkswagen rose above the 100-billion-euro mark on Wednesday for the first time…